CVE-2024-5290 Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2024-5290 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 07/08/2024 | CVE Updated: 18/09/2024 | CVE Year: 2024
Source: canonical | Vendor: Canonical Ltd. | Product: wpa_supplicant
Status : PUBLISHED

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CVE-2024-5290 Description

An issue was discovered in Ubuntu wpa_supplicant that resulted in loading of arbitrary shared objects, which allows a local unprivileged attacker to escalate privileges to the user that wpa_supplicant runs as (usually root). Membership in the netdev group or access to the dbus interface of wpa_supplicant allow an unprivileged user to specify an arbitrary path to a module to be loaded by the wpa_supplicant process; other escalation paths might exist.

Metrics

CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: 8.8 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

l➤ Exploitability Metrics:
    Attack Vector (AV)* LOCAL
    Attack Complexity (AC)* LOW
    Privileges Required (PR)* LOW
    User Interaction (UI)* NONE
    Scope (S)* CHANGED

l➤ Impact Metrics:
    Confidentiality Impact (C)* HIGH
    Integrity Impact (I)* HIGH
    Availability Impact (A)* HIGH

Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-ID: CWE-427
CWE Name: CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Source: Canonical Ltd.

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

CAPEC-ID: CAPEC-641
CAPEC Description: CAPEC-641 DLL Side-Loading


Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).